[Memphis.pm] sorts

[Keith W. Sheffield]

>>>>> "Carl" == Carl Brock Sides <csides at autozone.com> writes:

> * Keith W. Sheffield <sheff at pobox.com> [001005 23:22]:
>> I though of ways to compact the sort demos given tonight and I got the
>> following scripts at the end of this post.
>> 
>> (listing 1 is faster, BTW).

> Strange, listing 2 is faster on my machine.

> csides at tanuki:~/sorting$ time ./keith1.pl < ips > /dev/null

> real 0m5.123s user 0m4.990s sys 0m0.110s csides at tanuki:~/sorting$ time
> ./keith2.pl < ips > /dev/null

> real 0m2.982s user 0m2.840s sys 0m0.120s

> Using Benchmark.pm shows that the single pack is a lot more efficient
> than the join/map/sprintf combo:

That make a lot of sense.  However, it could be due to the number of ips
being sorted.  I was sorting 100000 ips, so maybe the speed gain by the
pack was being offset by having to do string compares instead of integer
compares.


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